I actually got out of the house today! I got out to get some clothes for
Baby Reed and to pop into this little Asian Grocery that I wanted to
try. It was fun to get out and it was our first trip out with all the
kids at once. It was fun. I even got some pics to share:

I am so glad to be home! Would you believe that after I posted my last
post, I had a doctor’s appointment and was admitted back in the hospital
for two days due to my blood pressure going crazy yet again. Needless
to say, I really didn’t expect to be back there so soon. I was upset to
be back there, but at least they let me keep the baby in the hospital
with me. Lets hope that the 15 pills a day they have me taking keep me
at home with my girls from now on.

Mar 28, 2012

For about 6 months, I posted on another blog. This a post that was copied from that blog. I used different names for the family. Just so you know the names were as follows:Prince Charming - Wandering Aengus Princess Belle - LillyPrincess Magpie - RosePrincess Snifflefritz - LotusLittle Prince - Reed

I have to say that I am finally feeling a like I am turning the
corner on this c-section. For some reason, this one left me with more
pain than my previous ones and just getting through my days was a
challenge. But today I woke up and the pain was actually manageable. I
have more energy and I am feeling like my old self again. I LOVE feeling
better and more able to enjoy this beautiful new family I have.

Here is my funny girl dressing up in a dress, a too small hat and a
pair of winter boots. She makes me laugh. Yesterday, everytime she went
in her room, she came out with another layer of clothes on, all the
layers were inside out and some of them were backwards. She is just too
funny.

The girls are adorable with their new little brother. It is so sweet to
see them come running every time he wakes up from a nap to be fed.
Rose plays “This Little Piggy” on his toes and Lotus pats him on the
head like a puppy and kisses him. Lilly is completely smitten and
thinks he is so cute. It really is so sweet to see them loving on him.

Mar 24, 2012

For about 6 months, I posted on another blog. This a post that was copied from that blog. I used different names for the family. Just so you know the names were as follows:

Prince Charming - Wandering Aengus Princess Belle - LillyPrincess Magpie - RosePrincess Snifflefritz - LotusLittle Prince - ReedI am proud to announce that my little boy was born on Wednesday, March
21, 2012. He is absolutely beautiful. My blood pressure was up somewhere
between percolate and slow boil and it insisted on staying there so the
doctor’s decided it was time to have him. It was really fast. They
tested my blood pressure and then told me it was way to high and that we
were going to be having him soon it was a matter of days. Then a few
minutes later, tested my blood pressure again. Before I knew it, they
came back and told me it was going to be a matter of minutes before he
arrived not days. It all happened so quickly that Wandering Aengus
almost didn’t make it in time. He came rushing in as the doctor was
scrubbing up and I was on the table frozen and ready to go.

The days are long in the hospital when you are bedrest. I find
myself bonding with my baby boy and composing letters to him and writing
out my thoughts as I lay here pondering how quickly our time alone
together is coming to an end. He is an active, healthy little boy and I
am so looking forward to having him in my arms. When I get out of here
and have access to a computer of my own, I will share some of my
letters and thoughts. While they may seem sappy, they are my thoughts
and feelings about this one last addition to our family, our little boy
who will make our family complete. And really, is it so wrong to be
sappy about the upcoming birth of our new son?? I don’t think so.
On the more mundane side, we are doing okay. He is doing wonderful
and I am holding my own with my blood pressures holding steady at
way-too-darned-high. I will try to update when I can.

Well apparently the nurses are concerned about my blood pressures at
home so they are sending me back to the hospital. I am not terribly
surprised. My blood pressures have been creeping up and I have been
getting headaches with them. So now I have to hurry and get everything
ready to go. I am not going to have access to the internet this time
but I will try to get Wandering Aengus to post some updates for me.

We had an U/S today. It was fun to see him again. The U/S tech had a
student there and so was explaining everything to her. It meant that
she was also explaining everything to me. She even went into detail to
show how we can be 100% sure that in our case this is definitely a boy.
The student said, “Wow, I didn’t expect it to be so clear.” So I guess
I can relax and be sure that that we really are adding a boy to our not
so little family of girls. He was sweet with his hands and his feet
all tucked up into his face. He is still head up and butt down, so even
if we weren’t planning a c-section, he would probably be one anyway.

My blood pressure has been up since I got home and my head is aching so I am trying to take it easy and bring it down if I can.

This is the first of my pregnancies where I can lay on my back and feel
exactly where the baby is. I can gently nudge him and have him react to
it. So last night, I showed Wandering Aengus. I showed him how to
feel where the baby is and how to nudge him and to get him to react. It
truly was a special moment to see the wonder on his face as realized he
was feeling his son and his son was reacting to his touch.

Mar 8, 2012

For about 6 months, I posted on another blog. This a post that was copied from that blog. I used different names for the family. Just so you know the names were as follows:

Prince Charming - Wandering Aengus Princess Belle - LillyPrincess Magpie - RosePrincess Snifflefritz - LotusLittle Prince - ReedIt is quiet being at home all the time and even though I haven’t
entirely succeeded in being actually on bedrest the way I am supposed to
be, I am trying the best I can. I am so anxious to have the
Gestational Diabetes gone so that I have some bad stuff. I want
something frozen and sweet and creamy soooo bad and something decadent
and chocolate would so hit the spot!!

The nurse was here today checking on us. We are doing okay. I love
that I can actually feel exactly where he is in there. I can lay on my
back and feel his head and his back and his butt. I can tap him and
make him move!!! I can’t wait to meet this adorable little man.

I had an appointment today to check on my blood pressure and my
diabetes as well as checking in on how our new baby boy is doing in
there. My blood pressures are holding their own and pretty crappy, we
increased my insulin and my baby boy is doing just fine!

I have a funny note about when the nurse was here yesterday. When
the nurse listened to my baby on the doppler, three-year-old Rose jumped
up on the couch beside me, lifted her shirt and asked to hear the baby
in her belly too. It was too cute! The nurse put the doppler up to her
belly near her heart so she could hear her own heartbeat. She was
thrilled!

Well I have been home almost one day and I have to say, I find it
impossible to do as I am told and treat my house as my hospital bed.
The kids kept me up most of the night, I had about 4 hours sleep, they
need tending, the house needs tending and my blood pressure is up. I
don’t know what to do. I don’t want to go back to the hospital but I
am not going to fudge my tests results that I am taking either. This is
for our good. How do people do this????

So it is the weekend now and we are both still here in the hospital
making the best of things. The little guy is strong and kicks me
regularly to remind me that it is all so very worth it to be able to
love and hold him in person when we are ready.

The hospital isn’t so bad really. I miss my girls and talking to
WAndering Aengus, but I look at it as a forced rest to prepare for the
many sleepless nights ahead. I just want to keep him in long enough
that he doesn’t need the NICU. I really want to bring him home with me
to meet all his big sisters. I LOVE my family so much. They are
everything to me and while my pregnancies may never go quite as planned,
I will walk to everything I have to in order to bring us all together,
healthy and happy.

Well my blood pressure was doing better but then it spiked up again
last night and this morning. So lucky me, I get to spend teh weekend in
the hsopital. I actually don’t mind. I mean it would be nice to be
home taking care of my girls and taking some of the pressure off of
Wandering Aengus, but I am in here taking care of me and my newest
little man. Every time they do an U/S I get them to verify that he is a
boy and they always tell me he is, so I guess I really do get to see
what it is like to take care of a boy instead of a girl. They increased
my medication again and gave me some steroids for the baby’s lungs
should we need to deliver early. So for now it is a waiting game.

This hospital is so much nicer than the one in St. John’s. I mean
the nurses are wonderful in both places. I think it takes a special
kind of person to take care of moms who are so very worried and anxious
to get home and can’t always be the most cheerful of people. These
ladies do a fantastic job and always with a smile on their faces. I
really like the food here. It is SOOOOOOOO much better than the food in
the NL hospitals and I get a menu that I can order from whenever I want
to!!! The kitchen has hours and I can place my order and wait for
delivery. There is a laundry room and family rooms as well. (Not that I
am allowed out of bed to go there, but it is nice to know that they are
there.) It really is a hospital that is set up to make your stay as
painless as possible.

Poor Aengus is at home with all the girls. He is doing well, but I
think he misses me taking the morning shifts and I know the girls miss
my food. LOL but I think they will be okay and hey, they will appreciate
me all the more when I get home, right??

Well, that’s all for now. Thanks for all your support. I will update more when I can.

Well I had an appointment yesterday and as I suspected, my blood
pressure was too high. It was so high that they decided they couldn’t
let me go home. So I am here while we play with my medication dosages
and see if we can bring down the blood pressure. So far, it does seem
to be helping. My blood pressure is lower than it was when I got here
and if I am lucky and it continues to go down, I will get to go home
tomorrow. Keep your fingers crossed for me.

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I wonder . . . who does the dishes at Cinderella's house. What happened
in her happily ever after? Does she ever get elbow deep in spaghetti
sauce, finger paint and bathwater while Little Princesses make a royal
mess on the floor? I got my fairy tale, Prince Charming came and swept
me away. Now what? That's where the story ends. This is where I live
happily ever after. And along the way, I am finding myself again. I have moved
from following the crowd to following my own path, prefering the life of
a vegetarian, green-living, homeschooling mom. My old-fashioned,
carnivorous, Prince Charming is not sure how he ended up married to
someone like me, but he supports me in being the person that I am and
even loves me for it.

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Some of the recipes I post I have invented myself, and others I was sent via email from my friends. These are recipes that I really enjoyed and wanted to share. If this recipe is yours, let me know and I would be happy to link to your site and to give you all appropriate credit.